Wanderlei Silva MySpace Blog, Bas Rutten Shoots On Slice's Performance.
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Recently Wanderlei Silva posted a myspace bulletin talking about his next big MMA opponent. Here’s the post:
On his myspace blog, Wanderlei “the Axe Murderer” Silva recently made a post about possible future opponents. Here it is in its entirety:
“From: Wanderlei
Date: Jun 5, 2008 10:44 AM
My next fight will be between Thiago silva or Lyoto Machida!
I will inform u of any other unformation about my next fight!
Thanks for your support!
Wanderlei.”
Either fight would be excellent, though for pure striker on striker a Thiago Silva vs. Wanderlei Silva would be excellent. Machida vs. Silva would be interesting, as Wanderlei would have to figure out a way to fight the elusive karate MMA fighter.
Due to popular demand The MMA News has another quote from Kimbo Slice’s main trainer, Bas Rutten. This time Rutten talks about Kimbo’s next opponent and his overall performance(it’s a good read!).
I don’t know. I heard that the winner between Brett Roger and the other one was gonna fight Kimbo and now Brett Rogers was actually pretty disrespectful to Kimbo after the fight. Of course he saw an opportunity to get a challenge there, so I understand what he did. He says the fight was garbage but I don’t think it was. Not for somebody that had only three fights, I don’t think it was garbage at all. I think in the first round he had some good reversals and he did a good job. He was too hungry and then when he got tired, fatigued, he of course didn’t have those cool escapes anymore. But we have a lot of fighters in the business who are currently fighting who fought over fifteen to twenty fights and they do exactly the same thing when they get tired.
How many times you hear me saying when I do commentating I say “Well, the only thing they have to do right now is to buck up and then roll them over” but they don’t because they’re fatigued or they want to save their energy. This is the problem too. There is so much pressure on Kimbo and there are such high expectations from him. He’s the headline of the show but people forget because of all these headlines and all these articles, people forget he only had three fights going into this fight. Everything he does he needs to make it perfect because if it’s a little less then perfect they will criticize the sh** out of him.
I think for the amount of fights that he had I really think that he did a great job. I think that his progress is getting there. He made some huge mistakes like not closing the guard, he was too hungry when he connected and brought Thompson in trouble and some more little things. Now he’s gonna watch the fights at the moment he sees his mistakes he’s gonna go “Oh wait a minute, Bas told me to do this this and this” and then this what they call learning the hard way. Learning the hard way is always the best way to learn because that you bring with you in the preparation and to your next fight so it won’t happen again. And that hopefully won’t happen again but I’m (laughs) pretty freakin positive that won’t happen again.”
Say what you will about Rutten, he understands MMA, and shoots straight.
